Hi I recently got my ARC (Entrepreneur Visa). I generally travel a lot for work and might not be in Taiwan for long stretches. I’d be there like alternate months as of now. I want to get a prepaid SIM card now (that is not short term like the tourist simcards). I would mostly be needing the number …

Be aware that you might have issues with such an arrangement: [image] Chunghwa Telecom requiring foreigners to reverify their ID? Technology So the mobile data on my Chunghwa Telecom prepaid SIM card I’ve had since 2016 suddenly stopped working last Friday, with the little…

Another issue is I think not many services also allow for pre-paid roaming (eg. for getting verification sms). I’ve tried Ibon (7-Eleven) before and can’t get it to work overseas. I think it may work for Taiwan Mobile and FarEastTone but you run into that other problem mentioned by slawa. I think a…

I’ve been doing prepaid for well over a decade, same number since I got here. Only upgraded my SIM card once in 2017 when they discontinued 2G. A few months back I got a message telling me to go in and update my documents, because both forms of ID I submitted when I got my SIM/phone number were long…

Does FastEastTone allow roaming on their phone plans (non-prepaid)? I have a plan with them. The phone basically stopped working since I left Taiwan, no calls, no texts. I can’t send any texts either. Or is there anything I need to do in the app to enable roaming?

[image] newhere: I think a cheap postpaid plan can be NT$199 for 1GB at 4G speeds at Chunghwa and FET if it’s something within your budget. Good to know. I bought a prepaid SIM (I remember it was from Chunghwa) at the Taipei airport for my second trip to Taiwan. I was told that the SIM was on…

[image] Beach: roaming Roaming is by default disabled on Taiwanese subscriptions, need to contact the operator and request to open roaming in their system. At least that was the case before, but I guess it is the same nowadays.

Hmm, thought I read from somewhere that it did, if it doesn’t work for you I’ll remove that part. I’m looking at options myself at the moment.

[image] Beach: Good to know. I bought a prepaid SIM (I remember it was from Chunghwa) at the Taipei airport for my second trip to Taiwan. I was told that the SIM was only good for the number of days I paid for and could not be refilled. Those found in the airport are Tourist SIMs, different f…

I have a prepaid Taiwan Mobile sim in addition to my regular contracted number. As others said, just need to top up 100NT every six months or you lose the number